Publication

2012 - Routledge, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

66,750 words, Guess

Page Count

267 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-10041588375X
  • ISBN-139780415883757
  • Library of Congress Control Number2011027834
  • OCLC Control Number741937648
  • OCLC Control Number787851313
and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780415883757
  • Open LibraryOL25211237M

Classifications

  • DDC796.074
  • LCCGV571 .R47 2012
  • LCCGV568.69
and 1 more
  • LCCGV571 .R47 2012eb

Description

"We live in a "museum age," and sport museums are part of this phenomenon. In this book, leading international sport history scholars examine sport museums including renowned institutions like the Olympic Museum in the Swiss city of Lausanne, the Babe Ruth Birthplace and Museum in Baltimore, the Marylebone Cricket Club Museum in London, the Croke Park Museum in Dublin, and the Whyte Museum in Banff. These institutions are examined in a broad context of understanding sport museums as an identifiable genre in the "museum age," and more specifically in terms of how the sporting past is represented in these museums. Historians explain, debate and critique sport museums with the intention of understanding how this important form of public history represents sport for audiences who see museums as institutions that are inherently reliable and trustworthy"--

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Routledge research in sports history -- 1

Other Editions

  • Representing the sporting past in museums and halls of fameRoutledge2012-01-01
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